Family: Thymelaeaceae
Plant: A variable, low, spreading or small upright shrub up to 1m high.
Flowers: White to pale pink, tubular with 4 spreading lobes and 2 stamens. The inflorescence is a large round terminal head 4cm diameter and enclosed by 4 ovate leaf-like long bracts up to 2cm, sometimes with a reddish tinge.
Flowering: July-October.
Fruit: One seeded, green nut 3-5mm long.
Leaves: Narrow elliptic to oblanceolate, soft and thin up to 3cm long and 2-7mm wide, erect, oppositely arranged and with a prominent mid-rib ending in a pointed tip. The leaves are paler on the underside.
Habitat: In sunny locations in dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Head of white to pale pink flowers surrounded by green bracts. Narrow, opposite leaves.
Name:
Pimelea From Greek = soft, fat (referring to its seeds).
linifolia From Latin linearis = line and folius = leak (referring to its linear leaves).
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Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Cluster, |
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Colour(s) |
White, Pink |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4 |
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Flowering Month |
7, 8, 9, 10 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Green, Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Tiny, Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Tapered-tip, |
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Discolorous |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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